And if there's no silicone Heavan, where do all the broken calculators go?

Small claims court. Claim the value of the infringment as less than $3K & pay the $138 for the court date & another $100 or so to have it served. They won't show up in court & you ask the judge for the money & an injunction by YouTube. Mail the injunction to YouTube & the video comes down. The money isn't going to be worthwhile to go after, but that's not really what you're after anyway.

Theories are taught all the time in science. Evolution and Intelligent Design are both theories. There is no reason why both cannot be taught in public school.

Have you read the ID 'theory' - "Life is too complex to have developed by itself, therefore some being created it." That's it. There isn't any evidence supporting it. So to say that ID is a theory in the scientific sense is incorrect - at best it is a preliminary hypothosis based on speculation and contrary to existing evidence.

Resources, employees are resources not assets. It's right there in the title "Human Resources". Employees are simply there to be used like any other raw material.

An asset would accrue value & have to be maintained, resources not so much.

They already have the engineering report. They don't like the results. It's inconvenient for the developers to have the water rise 1M, so they are trying to prohibit people from planning for it.

This way, developers can make piles of cash today and soak the public for FEMA flood insurance payouts later. Oh it won't hurt that they might get to build the replacement houses too.

They also took away the right for the emergency services workers to be trained and know what they were dealing with in the event of a fire or other situation potentially involving weapons grade radioisotopes.

Um, not really. I knew it was there. Just about anyone who went to college in the area knew it was there - if you were a hard science major. What they didn't do was advertise it. They got regulators to approve it & they put it in - no publicity & no big shouting matches over it.

Theoretically it already has, it's paid the fine in lost customers due to their service being so crappy. I can't imagine that you could pull something like this off without massively degrading the hijacked service.

His technique used a packet sniffer & changed the MAC addresses on the modems. That creates the same havoc on the network as 2 devices with the same IP address. So you would have a situation with huge blocks of packet loss while one modem was getting the data for both modems, until the ARP table updated & the other modem got all the data. So, it would probably be pretty miserable for both the person paying for the service, and the person impersonating them.

Actually - a 'spent' fuel rod still has about 80% of it's original isotopes in it. If you were allowed to re-process it, thats 4 brand new rods for every 5 old rods - and an 80% reduction in waste. Add to that the ability to feed the waste into a breeder reactor & you can convert a plants 'spent' fuel into more energy and low level waste.
The problem isn't with the creation of nuclear waste, it's with how it's being handled - or not handled. Because reprocessing the rods would produce weapons grade materials - the US forbids it. Because it's so much safer to have thousands of tons of radioactive material sitting in hundreds of sites rather than a few nukes worth of stuff in a single central location that can be well guarded and controlled.

If they don't attempt to enforce copyright they lose it.

Not in any country I know of. Trademarks are subject to this in the US, but it's not true of copyright in countries that are signatories to the Berne convention.

Preliminary injunctions are issued under "good faith" statements by the lawyers - essentially it happens because there hasn't been any discovery yet in the issue. It means you actually believe that what you are saying is true. The converse - "bad faith" is liable for a 601 hearing by the bar association - although you basically have to be arrested before they give a damn.

The way the DMCA is written, takedown notices are basically preliminary injunctions against the posting of that item. What I can't understand is how you can in "good faith" say you own copyright on everything with "the box" in it. At this point, I would say that they violated the rules & should be sued for slander of title by the copyright owner and tortuous interfierence by hotfile and the copyright owners.

In my own little perfect world, they would have an injunction issued against them preventing them from issuing another takedown notice for a year or more as punishment for abusing the system.

Pedantically speaking, there was a design study for putting wings on the Apollo CSM so the Apollo crew could fly back to land rather than crashing into the sea. Though trying to land it with the limited view out of the CSM windows would have been entertaining.

Actually it was a para-sail that popped out after the parachutes slowed it down enough. They have one in the Smithsonian.

Um, don't really know. I'm working contract work in DC so I'm not familiar with the area (From MA) I'm about 5 miles from capitol building.

In a really brief format:

• earthquakes are caused by shifting along faultlines.
• When the faultline freezes, the stresses builds until the stresses get larger than the structural strength of the rocks making up the fault.
• The sudden release of stress at one point on the faultline translates that energy along the faultline as the sides of the fault shift.
• The stress shifting along the faultlines can cause either the same location to release again - aftershocks, or other sections of the fault to release - chain earthquakes.

I work 3rd shift & was woken up with stuff falling from the shelves. First earthquake I actually felt.

Pheonix Az & several other cities use tall evaporative towers to cool plazas -- pump water to the top & let it cascade down over tera-cotta tiles. The evaporation drops the air temperature and the cooler air combined with the dropping water forces the cooler air out the bottom of the tower.